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Filipino scientists and their inventions


1. Arturo Alcaraz.

Doctor Arturo Alcaraz is a volcanologist specializing in geothermal energy development. In 1967, Arturo Alcaraz and team powered an electric light bulb using steam-powered electricity. Power coming from a Volcano near the town of Tiwi. This was the first geothermal power generated in the Philippines.

2. Benjamin Almeda. Benjamin

Almeda designed a food-processing machine. In 1954, Benjamin Almeda founded the Almeda Cottage Industry (now the Almedah Food Machineries Corporation) which manufactured his basic food processing inventions including his rice grinder, meat grinder and coconut grater.

3. Julian Banzon. Filipino

chemist, Julian Banzon researched methods of

producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut, and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines - 1930 and Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Iowa State University - 1940.

4. Ramon Barba. Ramon

Barba invented practical flower induction treatments. Filipino scientist, Ramon Barba is best known for his advancements in mango farming research and tropical tree physiology. Ramon Barba invented techniques to promote crop flowering using a potassium nitrate spray. The Philippines is a leading exporter of mangoes and mango products. B.S. Agronomy (Fruits) University of the Philippines 1958 and M. Sci. Horticulture, University of Georgia - 1962

5. Benjamin Cabrera. Doctor

Benjamin Cabrera has developed

innovations in drug treatments against diseases caused by mosquitoes and agricultural soil. Doctor Benjamin Cabrera has written more than a hundred scientific publications on medical parasitology and public health - in particle research on filariasis. 1945 - M.D. at the University of the Philippines and 1950 -M.P.H.in Medical Parasitology and Public Health at Tulane University

Aaron James Martinez 6. Paulo Campos.


Filipino scientist, Paulo Campos built the first radioisotope

laboratory in the Philippines. Doctor Paulo Campos is a specialist in nuclear medicine and the award winning writer of over seventy-five scientific papers including: Observation of Some Parameter of Insulin Action; Cr-51 Tagged Red Cell Studies; and The Genetic Factor in Endemic Goiter Magdalena Cantoria. Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist who is known for her

7. Magdalena Cantoria. Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist who is


known for her research in the morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of drug plants, in particular agar, rauwolfia, datura, mint and Piper. 1954 - Edwin Leigh Newcomb Award in pharmacognosy given by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, 1962 Edwin Leigh Newcomb Award (for research on the growth and development of Daturia strasmodium L.), and 1977 - Most Outstanding Phi Sigman

8. Josefino Comiso. Filipino Physicist Josefino Comiso has been warning the world about global warming.
Josefino Comiso is a Filipino physicist working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studing global warming in the Arctic. Josefino Comiso was the first person to discover a recurring polynya in the Cosmonaut Sea, south of the Indian Ocean. A polynya is a semipermanent area of open water in sea ice.

9. Lourdes Cruz. Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the
biochemistry field of conotoxins, in particular the toxins of the venom of the marine snail Conus geographus. Lourdes Cruz documented the biochemical characterization of the homologous highly toxic monomeric peptides with internal disulfide bonds including: Conotoxin GI, Conotoxin GIA and Conotoxin GII. Lourdes Cruz has helped develop conotoxins for the purpose biochemical probes for examining the activities of the human brain. Lourdes Cruz - Awards: NAST Outstanding Young Scientist Award 1981, NRCP Achievement Award in Chemistry 1982, and Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service Award (Biochemistry) 1986. B.S. Chemistry, University of the Philippines, 1962, M.S. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1966 and Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1968

10. Rolando De La Cruz. Filipino scientist Rolando De La Cruz invented


an anti cancer skin cream. Rolando de la Cruz invented DeBCC an anti-cancer skin cream made from cashew nuts and other local herbs from the Phillipines. Rolando de la Cruz's cream combats basal cell carcinoma or skin cancer without causing any side effects.

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Foreign scientists and their inventions


Galileo - 16th century scientist, and one of the most famous. Invented the
telescope, discovered planets and is the father of modern astronomy

Charles Darwin - Englishman whose


book The Origin of Species opened up the field of evolution and it still remains a controversial book in some parts of the world today. Many of the observations he made in the 19th Century have held up and been expanded on since his death.

Pierre and Marie Curie

- husband and wife scientists made many

discoveries during their lifetime. Pierre discovered the process to pasteurize milk and as a husband and wife team they won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their body of work on radiation.

Robert Boyle - an Irish physician and


chemist, he is known as the father of modern chemistry.

Albert Einstein - German-born scientist best known for his Theory of


Relativity. His work helped pave the way for space exploration and the nuclear age.

Archimedes - a Greek
mathematician, scholar, scientist, engineer, and astronomer. He is known as one of the great minds of the ancient ages. He is also known for being the first to come up with a remarkably accurate measurement for the value of Pi.

Aaron James Martinez Edwin Hubble. Edwin Powell Hubble was an American
scientist who had a particular interest in astronomy and space. His greatest contribution to theworld of science was that he discovered that there are other galaxies that exist in as well as the Milky Way. In addition to this, Hubble also suggested the spectrum of light that exists between galaxies can distinguish the distance between a particular galaxy and our planet. Although he worked hard to establish astronomy as a branch of physics in order to allow astronomers to receive the Nobel Prize, he never succeeded during his lifetime. However - after he passed away in 1953, the Nobel Prize Committee reconsidered these rules and included astronomy in the physics sector for potential Nobel Award winning scientists.

Louis Pasteur. Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist


and famous chemist who was the first to create and administer a vaccine. He created the first ever vaccine for rabies and anthrax as well as making the discovery that a deactivated virus could in fact strengthen the body if it were to be exposed to it. He was also responsible for discovering the process of pasteurizing milk, hence the term 'pasteurization'.

Alexander Fleming.

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist who made the discovery of the very first antibiotic - penicillin. He received a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine award for his work alongside his fellow scientists Howard Florey and Sir Ernst Boris Chain who aided him in this discovery.

Gregor Mendel was an Austrian scientist credited as the founder of


the science of genetics. His work showed that plants (in particular pea plants) gave certain traits on to one another down generations.

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